EU ambassadors have endorsed the provisional agreement on the four legislative proposals that make up the Circular Economy Package, including a target of a 60 per cent municipal recycling rate.

A five pence charge for disposable cups will be trialled by Starbucks, in partnership with environmental behaviour change charity Hubbub, in 35 stores across London.

As China’s import restrictions see levels of waste plastic rise in the UK, Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Polymers, argues that low-grade materials should be landfilled rather than burnt for energy.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has criticised the government’s inadequate response to its ‘Plastic bottles: Turning back the plastic tide’ report and lack of action of preventing plastic bottle waste.

Saxlund International, the UK arm of the bulk material handling and bio-energy combustion specialist Saxlund Group AB, is expanding with new staff appointments and a move to a larger site.

Blackpool Borough Council has announced that it will be bringing its domestic waste service back in-house when its current contract with waste management company Veolia ends in April 2019.

Viridor has signed a 12-month waste management contract with the Flagship Group [https://www.flagship-homes.co.uk/], a company that provides homes for affordable market rent and sale across the East of England.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has pressed Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, regarding his commitment to looking at fiscal measures to reduce single-use plastics.

More than three million tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment have now been collected and treated across Europe by the European Recycling Platform since its foundation in 2002.

South Wales Police arrested eight people last week on suspicion of fraud, including, it is believed, several members of Cardiff Council’s waste management team.